about adapting to frugal lifestyle after an incomebreakdown 🫠
my adhd is giving me a hard time not spending for any impulsive ideas but I am left with only round about a quarter of my former income and I can't adapt well. I had enough before and since half a year I don't, but my brain wants to spent money like before.
we don't eat expensive, but we snack expensive. i usually don't buy a lot of clothes but I lost a lot of weight and most doesn't fit anymore (and I'm going to look for a new job soon, so I need at least one proper outfit).
we got a cat and a dog, which had super heavy health scares last year. so I pay for the insurances instead of waiting for the worst. the dog is allergic af and I have to buy expensive special food.
i am a single parent and have to take care of the teenagers needs as well.
I'm going to sell my car soon, because I just have to to get by. social aid doesn't pay anything at this point because I was couple of bucks over the limit so far. But they don't consider the high debt I got. So I'm actually pretty concerned right now. i used to be poor before, so I kinda know I will get over this episode, but it terrifies me at this point.
long story short:
i need a network of no-buy-buddies that helps keep me from spending too much. anyone out there?
I’m here and trying to be frugal
did you choose to live frugal or did it just happen at some point? I used to grow up superpoor and we've had a frugal lifestyle. but as I started to have a career I started to spent more on things, food etc. I'm trying to get myself to be really careful with money now, but it's not easy thanks to adhd
I think somehow from high school into college I began to save more than I spent. From college into grad school now I saved a ton and am more comfortable for it. I also grew up with some poor periods and a very bad example and a very good example in my life of how to handle money. With a child now it’s very hard but we are trying to adopt. We are frugal but hard to stay even!
I totally get what you mean. Thanks for sharing! Just today I was going through Walmart thinking of all the things I needed but I stayed focused ;)